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Blindspotting wicked problems

By blindspotting On May 14, 2013 · Add Comment
Human eyesight has a blindspot where the bundle of optic nerves and blood vessels enter our eyes. A significant segment of our field of vision is missing though we don’t notice that it’s missing because our brains hide these blindspots from perception. Something similar happens when people try to solve problems caused collectively, such as [...]
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Oops! Solving global problems in complex systems

By blindspotting On May 10, 2013 · Add Comment
Rio+20 will mark twenty years since the Rio Earth Summit and forty years of International efforts since the Stockholm Conference of 1972. Despite all this effort and its achievements, civilisation remains increasingly insecure against a range of shocks with a potential for cascading impacts and irreversibility. It looks like the era of gradual problems has passed, as [...]
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We are just three steps from a circular economy

By blindspotting On May 9, 2013 · 11 Comments
It’s that simple, yet the case for incremental change remains stuck in a mindset groove. So how do we design ourselves out of this one, ponders James Greyson. The circular economy vision is obvious and vital. It’s been obvious and vital for at least 47 years, since Kenneth Boulding first presented a paper entitled The [...]
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